From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 5 7:18: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5442514FF7 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 07:17:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA88836; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 10:16:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 10:16:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Randall Hopper Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19990905100040.A5109@ipass.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Brian F. Feldman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > | > |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. > > Great! Thanks. > > Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface > that was being hammered out (to coordinate write-combine setup on the frame > buffer)? All I find in Dejanews is: > > http://www.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=452806764 > http://www.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=502908632 Well, from 3.9.16, I get (==) NV(0): Write-combining range (0xcc000000,0x1000000) :-) Nice to know that my work ...errr works. > > Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE :-) Use cvsup to go to 3.3-STABLE. > > Thanks, > > Randall > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is \ green@FreeBSD.org | indistinguishable from a feature." | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! \ -- Rich Kulawiec / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message